A Current Interpretation

At our Christmas party on Sunday I took a picture of these three boys playing a game on a Switch.  While THGGM was looking at the pictures the next day he pointed out to me that this picture reminded him of the one hanging over our piano.

I could not have posed them like this if I had tried!
The picture of the three boys seems like a 2018 (it was still 2018 when i took the picture) interpretation of this one by Walter Firle.

THGGM?

Is it THGGM, or is it Onslow from the British Comedy "Keeping Up Appearances"?

Hot Monday

For the record (because we have established that there IS one), this is the first day of summer that I have turned on the TV for these guys.  This was after hours of playing outside riding bikes, scooters, skate boards, playing catch, playing with the neighbors in their backyard, AND playing in the pool.  It's hot.  It wore them out.  Before they could even ask I suggested they watch Monsters University.

And so, because it is Monday, Famke and I made things!

Shallow Happiness and Sadness

 Of course in the whole of life, these things matter very little, but on the shallow end of things, I was both happy AND sad when we stopped into Gurney Mills on our trip home from Wisconsin.
My very favorite store there - the ONLY one I go there for - was closing. Archiver's.  Not all of their stores, just the one in Gurney Mills.  But it's the only one I've ever been to.

My sadness was short lived, as their closing meant that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING was 40% off, including sale and clearance merchandise.

 I found this fabulous pad of paper with charming old-fashioned designs.  I LOVE it.

And since Famke has expressed a deep desire to make cards with me, I found a few fun things for doing that too.

And a very large punch for making banners.

I even found a pad of paper for making paper purses.  I think Famke will enjoy that too (hmm.  that is fun to say.  a pad of paper for making paper purses).

You'd be proud though.  Once I found this great paper, I put a bunch of other things back.

 I really did.  I didn't want to, but I'm trying to be grown up about things like that.

It usually doesn't work too well, so when it DOES work, I brag about it.

I'm weird like that.

THGGM and I walked nearly the whole of Gurney Mills, which is HUGE.  So leaving the mall we stopped at Starbucks.  It was no where near the place we came in, so we were walking the mall with our goods and carrying our Salted Caramel Mocha's when suddenly THGGM sucked in a big breath and said "OH NO!"

Needless to say, this caused me to startle and my Salted Caramel Mocha jumped out of  my cup and spilled all down the front of my very solid off white shirt.  Yes.  I had to walk the remainder of the mall with deep dark splotches of Salted Caramel Mocha down the front of me.  It was embarrassing.

And are you wondering what THGGM said "OH NO!" about in such an alarming way?  It had just occurred to him that we had a dresser taking up the whole of our back seat (see below) and still had a dog to pick up before we reached home.

Thankfully, I still had a clean shirt in the car.  And for the last leg of our trip, I held Zeke on my lap.  He didn't mind one little bit.